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by rspeer 9y ago
It would put Florida onto Atlantic Standard Time. The simple description of how to get there is to shift to DST one summer and never shift back. The same thing has been proposed in New England, if enough states agree to do it simultaneously
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by rspeer 9y ago
In my work with the Common Crawl, I agree with one thing the author states uncertainly: just download it. Everyone tells you that you should compute statistics on the Common Crawl by running a distributed task across a lot of AWS machines,
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by rspeer 9y ago
So I used Neo4j in 2011. It was very exciting at first, and then I got quite burned by it when I tried to make something real. Many people in this thread are describing a very different experience, and I want to know if it has really dramat
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't think the person you're responding to is the one doing it.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yeah, a feature set doesn't matter if the features are bad. I would never want to use Skype as a platform for an ongoing text chat. (Does Skype even have persistent channels?) Also now that Discord exists, I would never do a voice chat
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by rspeer 9y ago
Ah! Knowing that, I bet that someone _could_ make a CJK font optimized for file size, which includes radicals by reference. It wouldn't work in every case, because radicals change size and strokes shift to make room for other strokes.
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by rspeer 9y ago
The unfortunate problem is that any one of these fonts increases the amount of data your page has to load by 8 megabytes. I don't think there's a good solution to CJK web fonts yet. If one existed, I think it would need to involve
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's important to keep in mind that the barrier to entry to publishing on arXiv is that you can produce a well-formed LaTeX document with coherent paragraphs. There's no reason to believe a claim _just_ because it's on arXiV.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Do you understand that this would have to be something that works reliably, at scale, and can be debugged? The exciting blog posts you've read are not going to solve the whole problem.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> cherryh.freenode.net set mode +ns ##irc_can_be_easy Some welcome message. You may be too used to IRC to recognize this, but this is frightening gibberish to 99.99% of computer users. Also, this interface does not get you crucial featu
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by rspeer 9y ago
And yet every thread about Slack (or Discord or Gitter or whatever) is full of people saying "why not just use IRC"?, as if IRC could replace a complete service.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Okay. So why isn't IRCCloud better than Slack?
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by rspeer 9y ago
And other platforms solve this problem by having history as a built-in feature, which apparently IRC can never get due to inertia.
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by rspeer 9y ago
"Hey, why do YOU get to be the president of Tautology Club-- wait, I can guess." -xkcd
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't think it's wisdom to spend your time on seriously considering every bad take you ever hear.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Update: that link points to the right page now.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Not using cryptocurrency is cheaper than proof of work.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Are these the right vectors? The filenames correspond to the fastText vectors I've already tried, which are only in English. EDIT: Indeed, this is old data from a previous publication. It appears they have not actually made the new dat
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by rspeer 9y ago
I argue that you need both domain-general and domain-specific data. Most domains you could apply NLP to don't have billions of words to train on, especially if the language of the data isn't English. Pre-trained data is valuable
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by rspeer 9y ago
Okay, I may be overstating just how quick it is -- you might have to spend a few days of CPU time to go through the whole list, based on estimates I'm seeing. (Parallelize it however you want.) But don't act like I don't know
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by rspeer 9y ago
I find it hard to believe that you could set a cutoff of passwords that have been leaked but that you could rely on an attacker not to try. These passwords are more useful guesses than anything a password cracker would make up out of comp
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by rspeer 9y ago
Why would a password that occurs in this list, but rarely, be safer? Attackers aren't going to skip the rare ones.
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by rspeer 9y ago
This list is small for the purposes of password-cracking. Enumerating 500 million things is something a computer can do very quickly. Consider this: if you store the hash of one of these passwords in your login database, you have stored som
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by rspeer 9y ago
The only advantage to Gboard I've seen is that it's built in. I used to use SwiftKey but eventually switched to Gboard just so I didn't have to keep SwiftKey set up. I encounter one frustrating problem with Gboard that I neve
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by rspeer 9y ago
The thing about the HipChat suggestions box is that you had to collect "votes" for your "suggestion" to be considered. So you could try to get their attention to the bug of "when you paste XML into a code block, it
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by rspeer 9y ago
It appears to me that there was a golden age of crowdsourcing that lasted from maybe 1999 to 2010. If you started a project in this time, you had the chance to get lots of quality contributions, for free, from people whose motivation is jus
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by rspeer 9y ago
This sounds like it was meant as some kind of direct message to emacsen. Do you want to explain to anyone else what you mean?
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by rspeer 9y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to call Unicode characters a "fixed set", because of the way that they can be arbitrarily composed from multiple codepoints. If you've encountered zalgo-text, for example, you've encountered c
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by rspeer 9y ago
> The "trying all possible solutions simultaneously" explanation of qc. This is a very common explanation, and from what I gather from Scott's comments is that it's inaccurate for TSP, but possibly right for problems
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't know what those years of work were accomplishing, but they didn't make Skype decent. Skype was decent a decade ago, and it has declined since then.

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